Device for treating nasal and pulmonary afflictions



Aug- 9, 1932- A. N* DARBY 1,870,558

DEVICE FOR TREATING NASAL AND PULMONARY AFFLICTIONS Filed June 22, 1928 ADELA N. DARBY,

Patented Aug. 9, 1932 1,870,558

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ADELA N. DAR-BY, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA DEVICE FOR TREATING NASAL .AN D PULMONARY AFFLICTION S Application iled June 22, 1928. Serial No. 287,402.

This invention relates to means for treatand 18, so that when the plunger is forced mg nasal and pulmonary afllictions. Broadly into the shell the cartridge 14, which may stated, the device comprises an inhaler, be made of wax, gelatin, glass or any other through which air is adapted to be drawn Suitable material, will be fractured, and its 5 into the nostril, said inhaler being of a nacontents released. The pad or wrapping of 55 ture adapted to receive a frangible cartridge, absorbent material 16 thereupon becomes said cartridge being adapted to receive a soaked and impregnated with the medicasuitable volatile medicament. A body of abment, and the volatile vapors, from the same, sorbent material is so disposed, with relation may be drawn into the nostril through pas- 10 to the cart-ridge, as to receive and be impregsage 12, through passages 8a, formed in the 60 nated by the medicament when the cartridge Wall 8, and out of the opening 7.

is broken by the action of a suitable fractur- While I have described the absorbent maing element, constituting a. part of the interial as constituting a wrapper for the carlieler, tridge, it is clear that this absorbent material 1:1 In Jthe accompanying drawing, may be otherwise applied, since it is only nec- 65 Fig, l iS e longitudinal Sectional View of essary that it be located at some point Where the Clevioe 0f the present invention7 and the released medicament will come in con- F'ig. 2 is a sectional view of a frangible lla-Ct With, and thereby impregnato it. Cartridge, hereinafter described Therefore, it is to be understood that the 2H Like numerals designate corresponding invention includes within its purview, not 7o parts in both of the gures of the drawing. Only the particular' arrangement described,

In the drawing, 5 designates a shell, which but any other arrangement which comes fairmay be made of wood, rubber, glass, porcely Within either the terms or the spirit of the lain, libre, paper, metal or any other suitable appended claims.

25 material, but is preferably made of hard rub- Having described my invention, what I 7.5

ber. This shell is open at its rear end: is claim is:

bluntly pointed, as at 6, and provided with 1. A device of theJ character described,

an opening 7 said bluntly pointed end being comprising a shell having a forward end adapted to fit into the human nostril. A wall adapted t0 lit into the human nostril, a fran- 8 spans the interior of the shell, and divides gbl@ Cartridge, means Within said shell 80 seid Shell into a, mixing ohainbei' 9, and against Which said cartridge may be coma plunger receiving compartment 10. A pressed, and a plunger movable into the rear plunger 11 is adapted to have endwise moveend of said shell for compressing and fracment in said compartment. This plunger is turing the Cartridge.

3 provided with en ein passage l2, extending 2. A device of the character described, 85 longitudinally therethrough and a filling of comprising a shell having a wall spanning absorbent material 12e Surrounding Seid ein the same at a point intermediate the length passage, and it carries a flange or shoulder of said shell, the forward end of the shell 13, at its reni' end, which limite the inward being provided with a part adapted to enter 40 movement of said plunger, with respect to the human nostril, a frangible cartridge, a 9o the Shell, wrapping of absorbent material for the car- In the nge of the device, o, frengible eertridge, and a plunger movable into the rear tridge 14, containing a volatile medicament end of the shell adapted to break said car- 15, and preferably encased within a wraptridge against said wall, to thereby cause the ping 16, of absorbent material, is adapted contents of the cartridge to impregnato the 95 and intended to be placed within the shell abSOlhent material. 5, and rest against the rear face of the 3. A device of the character described, wall 8. The rear face of this wall, and the comprising` a tubular shell having a Wall forward end of the plunger 11, are provided spanning the same at a point intermediate the with cooperating fracturing corrugations 17' length of the shell, said wall being perforated and the forward end of the shell being reduced to'adapt it to enter the human nostril, a plunger mounted to slide freely into the rear end of the shell, said plunger having an air passage-way open at its outer end, formed therein, and a frangible cartridge of a size to fit within the shell between saidplunger and Wall.

4. A structure as recited in claim 3, wherein said plunger is filled with a body of absorbent material surrounding the opening therethrough.

5. A structure'as recited in vclaim 3, wherein the inner end of the plunger andthe rear face of said wall are provided with co-operating. fracturing surfaces to crush said frangiblecartridge, said plunger being filled with a body of absorbent material to receive the contents of said cartridge, said absorbent material surrounding the air passage-way through said plunger.

6. A device of the character described, comprising a tubular shell having a 'reduced forward end shaped and adapted to enter the human nostril, a plunger mounted to slide freely into the rear end of the shell, said plunger havingr an air passage-way formed therethrough, a wall spanning the shell at aV point intermediate its 'length and at a point spaced such a material distance from the front end of the shell as to leave a mixing chamber of considerable size between said f wall and the front end'of the shell, the forward end of the plunger and the rear face L: of said wall constituting crushing surfaces,

and a frangible medicament containing cartridgeof a sizeto lit within the shell between said plunger and wall.

7. A structure as recited in claim 6, wherein said plunger is filled with a body of absorbent material ada-pted to receive the'contents of said cartridge, said absorbent material surrounding the air passageway through said plunger.

8. A device of the character described comprising a tubular shell having a wall spanning the same at a point intermediate the length of the shell, said wall being' perforated and the forward end of the shell being reduced to adapt it to enter the human nostril,

a plunger mounted to move into the rear end i of the shell, said plunger having an air passageway formed therethrough, a frangible cartridge of a size to fit within the shell between said plunger and wall, and a pad of Yabsorbent material between the cartridge and thevair passageway of the plunger and covering the latter, said pad of absorbent material being renewable with a cartridge.

In testimony whereof she afiixes her signature.

ADELA N. DAR-BY. 

